YouTube+EDU

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YouTube EDU is a video sharing website that is designed especially for education. YouTude EDU was designed by Google as a safer cleaner version of YouTube for schools to use. According to Google Developers “YouTube EDU provides access to high-quality, educational content, including short lessons, full courses, professional development material, and inspiring speeches, from the world's leading universities, educators, and thought leaders.” YouTube EDU helps a teacher to find short lessons to supplement classroom instruction. Two programs within YouTube EDU are YouTube for Teachers and YouTube for Schools. Another option available through YouTube EDU is teachers can create and upload lectures and lessons for students to watch.
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There are many other great ways that YouTube EDU can be used in the classroom, the Edudemic’s article have several other suggestions for the professional teacher.
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 * Teachers can create YouTube EDU video for students to watch. This practice is being used in “Flipped Classrooms” across the country. In flipped classroom students watch the lesson or lecture at home when they would normally do traditional homework. Then they do the application in the classroom when the teacher is present to help them. Another use for these videos is for students that have been absent so that they can keep up with the class.
 * Teachers can use YouTube EDU videos to “hook” their student’s interest in the lesson.
 * Choose videos to encourage lively discussions.
 * Assign videos to help student to enhance students learning.
 * The use of YouTube EDU aids teachers in differentiation of lessons.

 To further explore YouTube EDU please look at the following links. YouTube EDU - especially look at the learn more link. This is the web tool. You will be able to explore the different videos available. You will also see the ease of searching by education level, subject, and category. Google Developers – gives you a more technical explanation of what YouTube EDU is and how it works. Official Educator’s Guide to YouTube – provides the teacher with a link to the YouTube playbook and a further explanation of what is offered on YouTube EDU ( brief explanation of YouTube EDU and pop quiz), such as Khan Academy ( Creator of Khan Academey talk on what Khan Academy is and how you can you use it), TEDEd (Explanation of TedEd), and DIY Music (a talk by DIY Music). New Teaching Strategy - This is a news cast reporting on how it work in several school districts. Three Ring Circus of Learning This is a video by a teacher that uses a flipped classroom everyday. He gives a lot of examples in how it works, what it looks like, and the benefits of the teaching style. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Flipped classroom is not. . . This video explains what the "flipped classroom not." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The New York Times - this is an article about YouTube EDU that was printed in the New York Times in March 2013.
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